Oh baby!

So as I sit to write this our newest addition is kicking the end of the laptop. She does not appreciate anything being remotely close to my stomach aside from clothing. And for those of you who missed it, yes I said she! Lord help Brian he is even more so outnumbered now! Miss Ivy Paige Riddle should be here in roughly 17 1/2 weeks and I am ready lol.

I remember when we were trying to get pregnant I told Brian that I really wanted a pregnancy I could enjoy, one that I could remember most of the details, that sort of thing. Boy did I stick my foot in it. With Ava I was very energetic, got sick one time, went to school full-time, worked full-time and had energy to spare...the whole pregnancy. With Ella I was pretty much the same way just add in a baby already at home. This time around, I have been sick the whole time, I have zero energy and I am moody all the time. I am just ready to be done at this point! This is the last pregnancy for me, my OCD can get over the odd number!

I have found that Ivy has a bit of her sisters in her already which makes me laugh. She is very active just like Ava always was. However, she hates noise just as Ella always did. She can move around all day long and be happy, until someone comes up to my stomach and starts talking right where she is or puts music on my belly. She does not appreciate either. She will stop whatever she was doing and just sit there. As soon as the person or music moves, she will move all over again. It is interesting to see bits of the girls personalities in her already, before she is even born. Brian really is in for it!

Going into the ultrasound nearly two weeks ago to find out what we were having was exciting and nerve wracking. First of all, we have tried to involve the girls as much as possible in this pregnancy so we let them come to the ultrasound. I'm pretty sure the technician has an appointment next week to get her tubes tied (she currently only has one child). Ella was concerned about the head size, but seeing as she was watching the ultrasound on a big screen tv, the baby's head looked ginormous! Ava switched back and forth from asking every question under the sun to asking me if I was doing okay. The night before the ultrasound I finally had what you would call a mother's intuition as to the gender of the baby. I had never had that with the girls. But I told Brian that I was almost 100% definite that we were having another girl, he felt the same way. So when the image went to between Ivy's legs we knew. Of course Ivy was very proud of her girl parts, which I will say differs from her sisters. With Ava, they were only 96% sure she was a girl in the first ultrasound we had to find out the gender, it was later confirmed 100% at the 3D ultrasound. With Ella, we spent 45 minutes trying to get her to uncross her legs. I ended up having to sit with my legs "criss-cross applesauce" as the girls call it and drink a few sips of Coke. That helped, we went back in and found out immediately she was a girl. Ivy, on the other hand, let us know as soon as the technician got to that part of the ultrasound.

I think I was more nervous about having a boy than another girl. I know my girls. We have all girl stuff in our house. There is pink and purple stuff everywhere! So when we found out it was another girl I think we were both sighing in relief, even though I know Brian kind of wanted a little boy. Ava was happy, even though she really wanted a brother and Ella was ecstatic. She has wanted another sister all along. I love the people who tell us that we need to try one more time for a boy. I'm sorry but if we have had girls the past three times, what makes you think number four will come out any different? Ha! We will stick with three thank you! We will leave the task of boys to Brian's siblings and my sister (much later in life for my sister lol).